ANXIETY AND STRESS

leading questions and reconstructive memory already covered in my other notes!read those before reading this :)

yerkes dodson curve.not research but shows that the lower the stress.the less memory you have but also the higher the stress the less memory you have,you have to have a balnce of stress to have the highest amount of memory possible.not one of the 2 extremes.

clifford and scott

yuille and cutshull

these people studied how eyewitness testimony is effected by anxiety and stress

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ANXIETY AND STRESS- Clifford and scott

clifford and scott

experimental group : saw violent version of attack on video

control group:saw less violent attack on video

both groups asked to recall 40 pieces of info

results:experimental group remember less.the higher the stress the less we remember.stress badly effects EWT